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Show plie SprinqvilL J4ercJd Pays DriLde . . . Has Lived Well . . . calls seeing windmills blown to bits and scattered for miles. "We made lots of money in Texas," Mrs. Harris remarked, "so we bought a big ranch with sheep and cattle at Freeona, Texas. I didn't want to live there, and neither did my sister-in-law, but neither wanted to come home and leave the other there. Our husbands hus-bands were both interested in mining min-ing so when a lawyer came from Mexico and offered to trader good mining property for our ranch, the men agreed. An English syndicate was going to develop the property. "About this time old Pauncho i Villa had been rampaging through j Mexico and on one trip into that j had to flee from Mexico, were gi- ven a living. Mr. Harris died February 24, J 1924, but before he died, he had a 1 nice vacation. Mrs. Harris said, j going in a new Ford car with other ( men to see the mining property in j Mexico. After her husband's death, Mrs. Harris sc-ld the-ir livestock and i went to Salt Lake City where her daughter, Julina, entered business college. While there she worked in the Orphans Home, taking care of j little children. For many years she i (Continued on page six) Featuring Histories and Pictures Of the City's Older Reside nts oUlerTrcsinatr 1" V69 f articles and Pictures f Springville's o v 5 years oVaT each Week in the Hera'd- A"Yone 57 an 1 a UsW of?h g so1honoretl- Only a call to the office, phone W ve tZ! ,nr tre a.nd-age f the dent, is all that is neces-. neces-. e arrange for the rest without charge. have a ptetnVVnreThble areI1ked to S to Snelson's Studio and care of that! 6 wlU be no chare' The HeraId " take fMf,f,!Ch Pf8011.6 Pict appears in the paper in this particular n reCC1Ve a bUqUet f f,WerS 15 compliments of the Spring-villei Spring-villei Floral, announces Dean Stewart, manager. f S ' ' ' i ! N i country, across from El Paso, we . saw prisoners being released, and saw wBere others had been executed," ex-ecuted," Mrs. Harris said. Later, the government t6ok over I the mining property and the Harrises Har-rises returned to Springville. Mrs. ; Harris said they felt they had ; done some good because from their j ranch many of the Mormons who Mrs. Adelia T. Harris Mrs. Adelia Twede Harris is a stately serene woman who has lived a good rich life with many interesting and educational experiences. ex-periences. She has traveled considerably con-siderably and has gained much through her travels. She lives in her own apartment in part of the home her daughter Julina, and son-in-law, E. R. Snow and family occupy on South Springville road, and seems to enjoy en-joy life to the fullest. She attends church regularly, visits friends and relatives and reads extensively. exten-sively. She was born in Provo, November Novem-ber 23, 1870, a daughter of C. P. and Christiana Peterson Twede. When she was very young, her parents moved to Salt Lake' City and she recalls many interesting sights and early-day incidents while living there. One event she will never forget was the time the large powder magazine, stored for protection in City Creek canyon, exploded. The family was just having hav-ing dinner and the large bowl of soup on the table spilled. Windows were broken, many people were injured by flying rocks and boards, and dense clouds of smoke covered the entire city. She said at first her mother thought the Indians were making a raid on the place. She attended school in Salt Lake, going to Aunt Tayah Has-trup, Has-trup, a pioneer teacher who taught in her home on 128 Street. It was i rather an exclusive school for those days,' with only girls and a few very good boys attending. As a little girl, she would accompany her mother to the Endowment House and while the mother did work, the children played around the big blocks which were being used to build the Temple. She was baptized in the font underneath the tabernacle organ. M-s. Harris remembers with interest in-terest the mule-drawn street cars in Salt Lake, and many a free ride the children had as they caught onto the rear of, the cars. Some conductors let them ride, but others cracked them off with their long whips. Sometimes the cars would get off the tracks and the ladies in their long dresses and the men in their dress suits had to lift the car back on the track on deep mud roads, she remarked. At the age of 12 years, Adelia came to Springville to work for her sister, who was the wife of the artist, John Hafen, when one f their babies was born. They lived in 2 rooms of the Bringhurst home, which is now the Mrs. Matt Crandall residence. Later, Adelia worked for the John Deals'. At, this place she received one dollar a week, but she had the opportunity to go to school to S. P. Eggertsen in the old - Seventies Hall, and worked mornings and nights and on Saturdays. As a young girl', she learned the finishing process for photography and worked for Ed Anderson, early Springville photographer. She helped to make prints of John Ha-fen's Ha-fen's painting of the LDS Prophet, Joseph Smith's last public address, and 'these prints were sold throughout the state. She laughed when she told how they washed prints in the ditch, but good pictures pic-tures resulted. ' , After she had learned the photography pho-tography finishing business, she went to Salt Lake to work for P. K. Morris, Jewish photographer. She walked about 14 blocks to and from work each day. She was maried to Hyrum Smith Harris, whose grandfather, Hyrum Smith, was a brother to the LDS Prophet Joseph Smith. They were married April 9, 1890 in the Manti Temple. After her marriage, they lived in Salt Lake City for a time and her husband operated the first electric street car out of Salt Lake. The cars then had no enclosure for the operator and he had to stand up all the time. From Salt Lake City they moved to Provo and then to Mammoth, and it was here that Mrs. Harris made many friends and has many fond memories. Recently at a Mammoth reunion, she renewed friendships with grown men, who as little boys she taught in Primary Pri-mary and in Sunday School. A One can imagine that Mrs. Harris Har-ris in her 3'ounger days was happiest hap-piest when she was doing good and helping others, and while at Mammoth Mam-moth had plenty of opportunity. Noting that there was little or no religious training for the boys and girls she, with a few other women, decided to do something about it. They found an old building which had been a saloon, disposed of empty bottles, and scrubbed the place from top to bottom with help of the boys. John Hawkins, father of Mrs. Esther Crandall of this city, was a shoemaker in the town at the time and was about the only man who would help them. All men in the" mining camp worked seven days each week. Later, La-ter, when the mining town of Mammoth began booming, an LDS ward was organized. There were many fine, talented people residing resid-ing there and finally a new church was built. While at Mammoth, Mrs. Harris served in many capacities ca-pacities as instructor in religious organizations. After leaving Mammoth, she and her husband and her husband's j brother, Franks Harris, and his wife, Josephine, went to Missouri on -construction work. This, too, was an interesting phase of her life. They were camped in the same area where the notorious Jesse James and his gang of outlaws had formerly held out. There were mostly Negroes in that part of the country at that time, Mrs. Harris said. She attended the Jo-sephite Jo-sephite Church and at one time had a most interesting experience defending her own faith. After living in Missouri, Mrs. Harris traveled with her husband and brother-in-law and sister-in-law to New Mexico, where they had a job building the Hondo reservoir. res-ervoir. Later they went into Texas sections of this state, and even into Oklahoma. They were caught in a typical cyclone while in this section of the country and Mrs. Harris re- H e r a I d vP a y s Tribute ... (Continued from page five) worked as a nurs3 and she ahvavs liked to care for children. She has always been a faithful member of the LDS Church and has had many faith promoting experiences ex-periences in her life. She has worked in many church capacities. I including president of the Second ward Primary and a class leader in Relief Society. She is a charter member of the DUP Camp Aaron Johnson and has served as class leader for this organization. In her younger days, Mrs. Harris sang in the Salt Lake Choir and was a member of Evan Stevens singing class. She also sang in the choir in the White Meeting House in Springville. Mrs. Julina Snow is Mrs. Harris' only daughter, another child having hav-ing died in infancy. She has five grandchildren and three oToat grandchildren, all living in Sprin-ville. Sprin-ville. ' o- |